Truro is the only city in Cornwall, its Cathedral towering above the skyline with its green spire and gothic aesthetic. The Cathedral was built at the start of the 1900s 250 feet in the sky with great big Victorian stained glass windows and the south aisle is one of the finest pieces of medieval architecture in Cornwall. Originally a market town and port way back over 800 years and boomed with the rest of Cornwall during the tin mining era.
The village of St Mawes has become a popular tourist destination as well as a second home haven in recent years but this beautiful old fishing port has stunning steep and narrow streets rising from the harbour which overlooks the River Fal. In recent years it’s seen a bunch of new house developments but still holds its heritage with the traditional thatched cottages. Around St Mawes, you’ll find a number of great shops, restaurants, cafes, and pubs serving up amazing food and drinks.
Redruth is a small village inland of Cornwall, as one of the most populated towns in Cornwall, Redruth is home to many Cornish residents and now has somewhat been commercialized bringing in the big supermarkets and smaller shops that come with that. Redruth has a lovely surrounding countryside with rolling hills for miles and mooing cows. Also in the town are some nice cafes, and a lovely indoor Market plus some vintage and curio shops to browse through then if you’re hungry there are many restaurants and pubs serving up great food every day.
Penryn is located at the head of the Penryn River which is where its name originates from, ‘Penryn’ is a Cornish word for ‘headland’ fit for this town as it is situated on the river. This old market town was once an important harbour shipping out granite and tin to other parts of the world during the medieval period, but now Penryn is dwarfed by the neighboring town Falmouth.
Helford Village was once a very important port, as difficult as this is to believe today as this is a quiet little village on the banks of the Helford River. Trading ships once would come into the passage and buy French rum, tobacco, and lace from the continent and the duty was collected at the old customs house. During the Napoleonic Wars, pirates and free traders roamed the river.
Falmouth is one of Cornwall’s largest towns, situated within a relatively sheltered bay on the south coast, Falmouth is a town all about water. This old harbour town was once a fine fishing village with a variety of boats now it still holds their small fishing boats to superyachts, opposite facing to these boats on the south side is an industrial dock catering for all sizes of ships and at the mouth of the Fal is one of the latest natural anchorages due to this you will see some of the worlds biggest ships here.
Camborne is a small hamlet village surrounded by beautiful countryside, now it’s somewhat been commercialised with big supermarkets, takeaways, and other stores now situated within Camborne making it a hit village for people moving down as it’s not too different from more populated places in the UK. Situated next to the A30, Camborne is a good place to visit as it’s easy to get around being so close to the A30 and just down the road from the beautiful beach of Godrevy.
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